Inclusion Criteria:
- Pathologic or cytologic documentation of pancreatic adenocarcinoma
- Metastatic or locally advanced unresectable disease, including borderline
unresectable disease
- Patients with biliary or gastroduodenal obstruction must have drainage or surgical
bypass prior to starting chemoradiation
- Measurable or non-measurable assessable disease
- No prior treatment (chemotherapy, biological therapy, or radiotherapy) for
metastatic or non-metastatic locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer
- 6 months since completion of any prior neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy (chemotherapy
or radiotherapy) for resected pancreatic cancer
- No prior treatment with oxaliplatin or irinotecan
- No prior treatment with fluoruouracil or capecitabine unless administered as a
radiosensitizing drug during adjuvant/neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy after/before
resection of pancreatic cancer
- Patients who received chemotherapy > 2 years ago for malignancies other than
pancreatic cancer are eligible, provided that chemotherapy was completed > 2 years
ago and there is no evidence of the second malignancy at the time of study entry
- > 4 weeks since major surgery
- No other concurrent anticancer therapy
- ECOG Performance Status: 0-1
- Age > 18
- No other malignancy within past two years except basal cell carcinoma of the skin,
cervical carcinoma in situ, or nonmetastatic prostate cancer
- Paraffin block or slides must be available
- Adequate organ function
- No interstitial pneumonia or extensive and symptomatic interstitial fibrosis of the
lung
- No > grade 1 sensory peripheral neuropathy
- No uncontrolled seizure disorder, active neurological disease, or known CNS disease
- No significant cardiac disease, including the following: unstable angina, New York
Heart Association class II-IV congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction within
six months prior to study enrollment
- No history of chronic diarrhea
- Not pregnant and not nursing
- No other medical condition or reason that, in the opinion of the investigator, would
preclude study participation
- Laboratory parameters as follows: absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/uL, platelet
count ≥ 100,000/uL, hemoglobin ≥ 9 g,/dL, creatinine < 1.5 X ULN or estimated GFR >
30 ml/min, bilirubin < 1.5 X ULN, AST and ALT < 3 X ULN, negative pregnancy test in
women of childbearing age